Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 1 – 2:30pm
Session two of a four-day webinar series exploring the social benefits, negative impacts, and future prospects for innovations in robots and artificial intelligence.
WEDNESDAY November 2, 2022, 1:00-2:30pm ET
Session 2: Informing the Public: Media and Messaging on Robots and AI
The robotics and AI media landscape is fast-moving, complex, and often filled with controversy. Each news cycle seems to bring another story about intelligent systems interfering in our elections, replacing workers and drivers, beating humans at Jeopardy, and supposedly achieving sentience. Who is making this news and how is it reported? At corporate R&D labs and university engineering departments, media relations personnel work alongside roboticists and computer scientists to frame their innovations in the best possible light. Meanwhile, high-tech journalists must maintain critical objectivity about the latest developments, carefully handle proprietary information, and preserve the trust of their informants and readers. What messages are firms, universities, and government agencies trying to circulate about robots and artificial intelligence? What challenges do high-tech journalists face in conveying accurate historical narratives and contemporary news about robots and AI? How should the public make sense of a high-tech media landscape rife with techno-evangelism, marketing hype, and dystopian futurism?
Panelists:
- Moderator: Andrew Meade McGee, Curator of Computing, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor: American History Museum, Lemelson Center
Event Location: Online
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Cost: Free
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